{"id":11,"date":"2016-05-17T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qomex2017.org\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:24:43","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qomex2017.org\/index.php\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are happy to welcome you for the <strong>9th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2017)<\/strong> to be held from <strong>May 31 \u2013 June 2, 2017 in Erfurt, Germany<\/strong>. It will bring together leading experts from academia and industry to present and discuss current research on multimedia quality, quality of experience (QoE) and user experience. The conference will be held in form of oral, poster and plenary sessions, comprising dedicated special sessions on trending topics.<\/p>\n<p><b>General Chair:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alexander Raake<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Technical Program Chairs:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lea Skorin-Kapov, Marcus Barkowsky, S\u00f8ren Bech<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Events- and Satellites Chair:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luigi Atzori<br \/>\n<\/span><b>Special Session Chairs:\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy Reibman, Sebastian Egger<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Important Dates<\/h2>\n<p>Full paper submission: <del>February 05, 2017<\/del> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">February 12, 2017<\/span><br \/>\nFull paper notification: April 4, 2017<br \/>\nCamera ready submission and early registration for full papers: April 30, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Short paper submission: <del>April 1, 2017<\/del> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">April 12, 2017<\/span><br \/>\nShort paper notification: April 25, 2017<br \/>\nCamera ready submission and early registration for short papers: May 7, 2017<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qomex2017.org\/index.php\/special-sessions\/\">Special Sessions<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Special Session: Image science and technology, visual perception and user behaviour for immersive technologies <\/strong>(Naeem Ramzan, University of the West of Scotland, UK; Glenn Van Wallendael, Ghent University, Belgium) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qomex2017.org\/index.php\/special-sessions\/\"><em>LINK<\/em><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Special Session: Down the Rabbit Hole &#8211; General Aspects of VR and the Immersion Experience <\/strong>(Raimund Schatz, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), Austria; Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universita\u0308t (AAU) Klagenfurt, Austria; Judith Redi,\u00a0Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qomex2017.org\/index.php\/special-sessions\/\"><em>LINK<\/em><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Special Session: QoE Vadis <\/strong>(Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden; Marianna Obrist, University of Sussex, UK) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qomex2017.org\/index.php\/special-sessions\/\"><em>LINK<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Conference Topics<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Topics include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Multimodal perception &amp; quality:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Modality relevance, underlying quality features and dimensions, multimodal integration, temporal aspects of QoE<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Immersive technologies &amp; spatial perception:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> High-resolution audio and video (incl. UHD, 4\/8k and beyond, HDR, HFR, WCG, etc.), 3D audio and video, 360\u00b0 video, Virtual\/Mixed\/Augmented Reality, immersive games, Light Field Displays, plenoptic imaging<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Probing the user:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Physiological assessment methods and applications, behavioral assessment, QoE and task performance, contextual information analysis, crowdsourcing, field-tests<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>QoE fundamentals:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Theory and definitions, test methods, statistical methods, experimental validity, qualitative research methods, sensory evaluation, taxonomies and ontologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Interactive media and synchronization:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Audio- and videoconferencing, tele-meetings, interactive gaming, networked VR and AR<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>QoE and content creation:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Storytelling, artistic intent, reference contents, user-internal references<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Aesthetics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Image-\/video- and audio-content analysis, \u00a0aesthetic appeal test methods, image and media platforms, contextual aspects (expertise in creation and perception, peer-group implications, \u2026)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Communities, social media and demographics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Social TV, joint media consumption, QoE in communities, geographic and demographic implications for media consumption and QoE<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Model development &amp; validation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feature selection, model development techniques (regression, machine learning, &#8230;), validation techniques<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>QoE data analytics:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Large QoE-related databases, data collection tools and techniques, machine learning, large-data analysis tools, implications for service and network management, visualization, statistical analyses, &#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>QoE-based network and service management:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> KPI and KQI definition for QoE optimization in emerging environments (5G, IoT, M2M, Cloud); control, monitoring and management strategies; QoE-aware Internet reference architectures; OTT\/ISP QoE-oriented collaborations, QoE and net neutrality<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Annotated multimedia databases for QoE research:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sources, data and media formats, QoE-related metadata, sharing, platforms, automatic collection<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Reproducible research:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sharing of data, test tools, model code, open platforms<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Submission Procedure<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prospective authors are invited to submit full or short papers (6 or 2 pages, respectively). Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process. All papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings.\u00a0Full papers\u00a0will be published in IEEExplore.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to welcome you for the 9th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2017) to be held from May 31 \u2013 June 2, 2017 in Erfurt, Germany. 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